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Palestinians who have been released from Israeli prisons as part of the hostage exchange with Hamas are describing physical and psychological torture, medical neglect, deprivation and more. Moureen Kaki, a Palestinian American aid worker with Glia International who has been interviewing the returnees, joins us from Khan Younis to share some of their stories. Most were captured and imprisoned without charge by the Israeli military in the past two years. "They were being illegally imprisoned as captives by the Israeli military and then the Israeli government," Kaki explains. "Some of them were held captive for as little as three months, and some of them for several years."
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As Israel and Hamas exchange living and dead captives as part of a U.S.-backed ceasefire agreement, questions are growing about how sustainable the truce is and whether the two sides will progress to the second and third stages of the plan.
"My family is very happy that the families of other hostages that have been returned, dead and alive, are reaching some degree of closure," says Middle East historian Joel Beinin, whose Israeli niece, Liat Beinin Atzili, was held captive in Gaza for 54 days after she was taken by Hamas militants on October 7, 2023, while her husband Aviv was killed. The family's story is the focus of a new documentary, Holding Liat.
"All of the rest of the 20-point plan is very dubious, and I have grave doubts about whether any of the rest of it will actually be implemented," says Beinin, who also discusses one-sided Western media coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and how he came to "abandon Zionism" despite having family in Israel.
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